Taylor Berman

Last week, a construction contractor
discovered the mummified body of Pia Farrenkopf
in the backseat of Farrenkopf's Jeep, which was parked in her garage. Strange as that is, the story
gets weirder: Farrenkopf, who police say died sometime in 2008, registered for and voted in the 2010 elections.

According to records in Oakland County,
Mi., Farrenkopf, whose body still hasn't been identified by the
Medical Examiner's Office, voted in the November 2010 gubernatorial election in Michigan. Officials, however, say it's
possible the vote might have been an administrative error.

Investigators are attempting to use
dental records to positively identify Farrenkopf, whose death is
being treated as a homicide.

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As for how her body went undiscovered
for so long: She lived alone, a neighbor mowed her lawn every so
often, her mail was returned to senders or sent to a P.O. Box, and all of her bills,
including her mortgage payments, were automatically withdrawn from
her bank account each month.

"[Her yard] was pretty manicured," a
neighbor told the Detroit Free Press. "There was no indication there
was a body in there, at all."

When the approximately $54,000 in her
savings account ran out, her home was foreclosed on by her bank, who
sent a contractor to evaluate the property. That's when her body was
found.

"All these things kind of led to the
perfect storm of no one saying, 'What's going on there?'" Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told the Detroit Free Press, adding that Farrenkopf likely died in "late 2008."

Farrenkopf worked for Chrysler until
September 2008, when she was laid off. Investigators are still
awaiting the results of her autopsy, though suicide by carbon
monoxide poisoning is unlikely.

"The key was in the ignition. The
ignition was not on," Bouchard said to the Detroit Free Press. "The key was partially out."

There were no signs of obvious trauma to the body, or what remained of it. Brouchard told WXYZ that, because of the body's decomposed state, investigators may never find out how she died.

"If someone is poisoned, that would be in their blood and muscle," said Bouchard. "We don't have blood or muscle."